Log-grapple.



c. W. RAMEY.

LOG GRAPPLE.

APPLIUATION FILED' JUNBze, 1911.

1,082,083. y l Patented Ju1y9,1912.

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CHARLES W. RAMEY, F `lilltDIE'lITlE, ARKANSAS.

LoG-efa'APPLE.

Specification of Letters vPatent.

Patented July 9, 1912.

` Application led June 26, 1911. Serial No. 635,499.

T 0 all whom z't may concern.'

Be it known that I, CHARLES W. RAMEY, a citizen of the United States,and resident of Burdette, county of Mississippi, and State of Arkansas,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Log-Grapples, ofwhich the following is a specification, and which are illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

The invention relates to devices by whicha hauling chain or cable may beattached to a log for drawing it over the ground.

The objects of the invention are to secure a high degree of eiiiciencycoupled with simplicity of construction and ease of manipulation theseobjects will be more fully pointed out in connection with the followir gdescription of the improved device.

n the accompanying drawings-Figure 1 is a perspective of the device asapplied to a log, and Fig. 2 is a view of the device detached from thelog.

The improved grappler is formed of two sections 10, 11, of cable orother material having ample tensile strength, the two sections being ofuniform length. To the end of each section there is securely attached ametallic loop 12,13 and 14, 15, each of the sections 10, 411 beingpassed through one of the loops of the other section. Preferably theloops are made oblong, as shown, in order that the two sections may beconnected and disconnected at pleasure after the loops have beenattached. It is obvious that for this purpose, but one loop 'ofeachsection need e of such shape and size as to permit 'one of the loops ofthe other section to pass through it, but by making the loops of uniformshape and size, as shown, the sections may be much vmore convenientlyassembled. When the two sections are united, as shown in Fig. 2,.'theyform a loop for receiving the end of* the log X, as shown in Fig. 1. Theloops 13, 14 being brought together ,across the end of the log areengaged with a hook 16 on the end of t-he hauling chain 17.

vThe device may be used on logs of any size within the range of itsmaximum capa'city. The line of draft` is directly in line,

with the axis of the log thereby requiring much less power to haul thelog than is necessary when the draft is applied at one side. The gripupon the log is directly proportioned to the weight of the latter and inall cases is sufficient to prevent slippage. v

The device is easily applied to the log and lis as easily loosenedtherefrom. The log ping a log and the free ends of the sectionsbeingextended away from the plane of the band for attachment to a haulingcable.

CHARLES W. RAMEY.

'Witnesses M. COOPER, ,i C. R. Larixmiv.

